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Google gets personal with ‘Search Plus Your World’
Earlier this week Google rolled out some radical changes to its search results. Google’s Search, Plus Your World update aims to make search results more social by mixing privately shared information (Google+ content) with public web results (natural listings). In Google’s words, “Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or…
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August 2011 search engine share data, Google shows slight decline
Latest statistics from comScore show that Google’s share of the U.S. search engine market has dipped for the first time since September 2009. Despite still dominating the market, Google’s share fell slightly in August 2011 when compared to July 2011, from 65.1% to 64.8%. In contrast, Yahoo! gained 2 percentage points in August to claim a total of 16.3% of the market share in the U.S. Bing, which saw no…
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Please do not feed the trolls… well, maybe just a little
Trolls, in general do not provoke positive emotion – unless you are perhaps an ogre. Or a dragon. Please note that in this post we are not referring to trolls in the ugly, malicious, cave dwelling bearded monster sense (well, maybe in some cases), but to trolls of the internet kind. By Wikipedia definition, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such…
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Yahoo! turns 16
On March 1 2011, Yahoo! turned 16 years old. A recent Yahoo! blog post took a look back at the last 16 years and it’s fair to say, it’s come a long way. It all started in February 1994 in when two students – David Filo and Jerry Yang, decided to build a guide to the web as a way of keeping track of their personal interests. These lists grew…
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Blekko announces impressive milestone
It has been well documented this week that Google and Bing are at war. Again. Google accused Bing of ‘copying’ its search results, Bing denied it, things got heated, the saga continues. You can read about that story here. In the midst of the drama, search engine Blekko has announced an impressive milestone – in January, the search engine received over 30 million search queries. This equals about 15 search…
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Google’s Periodic Table of APIs
As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Google has applied this theory in its latest method of categorising its wide range of APIs (Application Programming Interface). In an effort to help the the millions of developers around the world who use Google’s APIs to build millions of apps and services, Google has created a rather nice periodic table-style infographic, showcasing its APIs and developer products. Click…
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The new social Q&A search experience from Ask.com
Q&A sites have been a hot topic of conversation over the past few weeks. In particular, start-up ‘social Q&A site’, Quora, which has been generating a lot of buzz online and dominating headlines of tech blogs. Quora may be flavour of the month in digital town but it’s not without competition – enter, Ask.com. Back in November 2010, Ask.com officially announced that it would no longer be operating as a…
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Study reveals interesting user search behaviour statistics
Econsultancy recently reported highlights from the “2010 Search Engine Results Page (SERP) Insights Study” by Performics. The study, which took place in the US offers some very interesting insights in to users’ motivations and behaviour when using search engines. Courtesy of Econsultancy, here is a summary of key findings from the report: Natural search vs. Paid search When asked if they know the difference between natural and paid search results……
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Yahoo! Rich Search Assist – it’s not the same as Google Instant, honest
Last week Google launched Google Instant Preview, so it comes as little surprise that Yahoo! has also announced that they’re testing something new. ‘Rich Search Assist’ is the latest innovation from Yahoo! that promises to 'change the way you consume information'. Much like Google Instant, the new feature automatically shows results in the top half of the page as you type. Like so; Ethan Batraski, Group Product Manager at Yahoo!…
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Facebook Rolls Out It’s New And Improved Search Feature
Earlier this week, Facebook announced the roll out of it’s new Search Feature, after successfully testing a new version on a selected group of Facebook users. The new version of the Search feature will allow users to search the previous 30 days of News Feeds for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes that have been posted by people in their friends list and also the pages that they have…
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